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The Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talk Series

Unless otherwise noted, talks are on Fridays at 12:15PM in the auditorium at 813 Santa Barbara Street.  You can find a listing of lunch talks from previous years here.

Bring lunch.

Contact:  Mansi Kasliwal

Event Date Speaker
September 7, 2012 - 12:15pm Song Huang (Carnegie)
The Anatomy of Elliptical Galaxies - What can we learn from photometric modeling?
September 14, 2012 - 12:15pm Kathy Cooksey (MIT)
Tracking the Evolution of Strong, 1.5 < z < 4.5 CIV Absorbers with Thousands of Systems
September 21, 2012 - 12:15pm Christoph Baranec (Caltech)
Rise of the Machines: Robo-AO and the evolution of adaptive optics
September 28, 2012 - 12:15pm Adam Miller (Berkeley)
How to Find the Rare Sources All New Surveys Promise: Machine-learning Enabled Classification and Discovery
October 12, 2012 - 12:15pm Gwen Rudie (Caltech)
The Gaseous Environments of High-Redshift Galaxies
October 19, 2012 - 12:15pm Aleks Diamond-Stanic (UCSD)
Probing the Gas Around Galaxies and Black Holes
October 26, 2012 - 12:15pm Ken Wong (Arizona)
Optimal Mass Configurations for Lensing High-Redshift Galaxies (and how to find them in the SDSS!)
November 2, 2012 - 12:15pm Drew Newman (Caltech)
Dark Matter in Galaxy Cluster Cores and the Assembly of Giant Ellipticals
November 5, 2012 - 4:00pm Prof. Marla Geha (Yale University)
*** MONDAY *** An Absence of Quenched Galaxies in the Field
November 6, 2012 - 12:15pm Alan Boss (Carnegie DTM)
*** TUESDAY *** Kepler, Microlensing, and Direct Imaging: New Constraints on Exoplanet Formation Theories
November 7, 2012 - 12:15pm Agnieszka Rys (IAC)
*** WEDNESDAY *** 3D view on dwarf elliptical galaxies: late-type origin and environmental transformations
November 16, 2012 - 12:15pm Ryan Foley (CfA)
The Most Common "Peculiar" Supernova
November 19, 2012 - 12:15pm Chiara Spiniello (Kapteyn Institute)
*** MONDAY *** Do More Massive Early-Type Galaxies Have More Dark Matter or Different Stellar IMFs?
November 30, 2012 - 12:15pm Pascal Oesch (UCSC)
Galaxy Build-up in the First 2 Billion Years: New Insights from Deep HST and Spitzer Observations
December 7, 2012 - 12:15pm Fuyan Bian (Arizona)
Luminous Z~3 Lyman Break Galaxies in Deep Wide Field Surveys.
December 14, 2012 - 12:15pm Jesse van de Sande (Leiden)
Stellar kinematics of z~2 galaxies and the inside-out growth of quiescent galaxies
December 19, 2012 - 12:15pm Shannon Patel (Leiden)
*** WEDNESDAY *** HST/WFC3 Confirmation of the Inside-Out Growth of Massive Galaxies at 0<z<2 and Identification of their Star Forming Progenitors at z~3
January 4, 2013 - 12:15pm Duane Lee (Columbia)
Understanding the Nature of Stellar Chemical Abundance Distributions in Nearby Stellar Systems
January 11, 2013 - 12:15pm Samir Salim (Indiana)
Ongoing star formation in red sequence early-type galaxies - the UV perspective
January 18, 2013 - 12:15pm Mohammad Akhlaghi (Tohoku University Astronomical Insitute)
Test of significant size evolution of massive quiescent galaxies in MODS, without measuring the effective radius
February 1, 2013 - 12:15pm Will Dawson (UC Davis)
Evidence for Self-interacting Dark Matter: A Call for a Regime Change
March 1, 2013 - 12:15pm Richard Bower (Durham)
Black holes, quasars and the galaxy mass function
March 18, 2013 - 12:15pm Ilsang Yoon (George Mason U)
*** MONDAY *** Bayesian Inference of Galaxy Structure
April 12, 2013 - 12:15pm Robert Quimby (IPMU)
Unusually Bright Supernovae
April 19, 2013 - 12:15pm Michele Fumagalli (Carnegie)
TBA
May 3, 2013 - 12:15pm George Privon (Virginia)
Dynamical Modeling of Galaxy Mergers: Connecting Simulations and Data
May 10, 2013 - 12:15pm Janet Colucci (UCSC)
Comparing Detailed Chemical Abundances of Globular Clusters Across Galaxy Types
May 24, 2013 - 12:15pm Ryan Cooke (UCSC)
The Most Metal-poor Damped Lyman-alpha Systems and Early Nucleosynthesis
May 31, 2013 - 12:15pm Melissa Rice (Caltech)
Mars through the eyes of the rovers: Imaging science from the Opportunity and Curiosity missions
June 7, 2013 - 12:15pm Alberto Dominguez (UC Riverside)
The measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe from gamma-ray attenuation
June 14, 2013 - 12:15pm Betsy Mills (UCLA)
TBA
July 12, 2013 - 12:15pm Kristin Woodley (UCSC)
TBA